🌱 Avoiding the “most people” trap

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes.

🏃‍♂️Escaping

The internet used to be an escape from the real world.
Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

Because we’re always online — doomscrolling, binging, browsing.

But the truth is simple: escaping = avoiding.

It’s running away from discomfort, instead of moving toward something meaningful.

Escaping is self-distraction.
The antidote is self-direction.

🌊 Engaging

Put another way, the opposite of escaping is engaging.

Showing up and going for it. Despite discomfort.

Escaping numbs. Engaging sharpens.

One keeps you asleep. The other wakes you up and makes you feel alive.

Consider one of my favorite quotes as your friendly reminder:

“You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.”

— Richard Feynman

🤔 Most People

Most people wait.

They wait for confidence. For permission. For clarity.

But none of that comes before action… It comes FROM it.

“Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

— ― Steve Jobs

Pick up the phone. Make the ask. Engage.

Salud,
Mitchell

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